It has been a long spring. Still have a ton more work to do on the car to get it ready. Here is one key component of this year's racing - fuel!



Hopefully that will last me through the season Does anyone know how to dispose of fuel drums when you are done with them? Will any VP distributor take them back?

EVOlutionary

 

haha wow. For some reason I got thirsty looking at the drums..maybe I'm a car?

my idea of getting ready for autox season is mentally preparing myself and talking to friends about autocrossing and pumping ourselves up I'll hopefully go out to one soon

 

damn. What'd 3 x 55 gal drums of, i assume 103 or so cost?

(does math in head)

$5 gal x 165 = 825 + hazardous shipping, etc, so probably a grand?

 

Not 103. I had my car tuned on VP C16, so I'll let you do that math.

EVOlutionary

 

haha, seriously, shoot me a pm with the costs, as i've pondered doing that, since i have the means to offload at work

thx man.

 

damn....what class are you running in? I thought AS, STU, BSP and SM don't allow leaded race fuel.

 

WOW! you better not lose to someone using 93oct

 

SM, I guess I will have to check the rule book. I thought leaded fuel was allowed. If not, guess I will have to use it for drag racing and sell it to my friends that drag race.

Oh, it is very possible. I know I can be outdriven. Only been doing it for a year, but I'm gonna give it everything I can.

EVOlutionary

 

https://www.jacksonautomachine.com/h...fm?sectionId=7

From the page above, you paid around 500 bucks per drum. Nice.

 

C16 is legal in SP and SM

Not in ST, ST has to have fuel "from the pump"

That's a pretty penny 5 gallons cost me $60 here in PA.

 

I am very interested in buying a drum. If you've found a place that sells it cheaper than $10/gallon let me know.

 

My idea was spending too much money!!!

 

Do you mean you have spent too much money, or that I spent too much on the fuel?

EVOlutionary

 

I meant me, went about 3 times over budget this year, and I still don't have everything I want/need for the season.

 

Dude! I love your avatar. That is a great picture.

As far as finding C16 for less than $10 a gallon, I doubt it will happen. It went up last year, probably will go up a bit more this summer what with crude oil prices reaching an all-time high (or darn close).

We are lucky, though, that even with the huge fluctuations in pump gas price, race gas holds pretty steady. Could be the profit margins, who knows. Gas companies only make a couple pennies per gallon on pump gas, but VP and TORCO and other companies like that probably make 10-100 times that amount of profit per gallon.

EVOlutionary